William D Herlong |

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William Herlong has practiced law in Greenville, South Carolina, since 1989. He has handled hundreds, if not thousands, of cases involving everything from shareholder and derivative claims, breach of contract and unfair trade practices, patent and trademark challenges, breach of fiduciary duty, theft of trade secrets, professional malpractice, and even a number of high-stakes personal injury claims. His cases have been of almost every level of complexity, some lasting years and involving hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in dispute. He has tried approximately 100 cases to juries and arbitrators.

Until 2004, William practiced in the "big firm" environment. In June of that year he left a successful practice with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough (over 300 lawyers), where he was an partner, to start his own practice. Before NMRS, he had been General Counsel and then CEO of a startup Internet company, and before that a partner with Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham in Greenville. In the first years of his practice, he was an associate attorney at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC.

William received his law degree from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago in 1985. During law school he was Articles Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review, and a member of The Order of the Coif. He earned a B.A. in Biochemistry, with High Distinction, from the University of Virginia in 1981. He was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1985 (currently inactive), the District of Columbia Bar in 1986 (currently inactive), and the South Carolina Bar in 1990. He is also a member of the bars of Supreme Court of the United States, the Courts of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit, the Fourth Circuit & the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the District of South Carolina, the Western and Middle Districts of North Carolina, and the District of Columbia.

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